Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spoke yesterday of the wholesale nuisance that is caused by the "muckers" swarming the yard and college playgrounds on all occasions. It has been suggested that a body of students be organized into a police force which shall drive out objectionable characters from the yard and ball fields whenever they appear. This, it seems to us, is the only effective way with which to impress outsiders with the fact that the college grounds are for college men and not for outsiders. If some of the 'varsity crew nine were to take the initiative, we are certain that they will find...
...LUND.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- The photograph has been postponed until Wednesday at 2.30, as several men will be away on Saturday. The club will sing in the yard...
...Freshman Glee Club gave a concert in the yard last evening, which, though short, was very enjoyable...
Again, every senior is regularly assaulted, by persons who have no kind of claims, for Class Day tickets. Each senior thinks, perhaps, that one or two yard tickets will make no difference. At any rate, he does not like to refuse a polite and seemingly slight request. If each senior gives away only two tickets in that way, some five hundred people who are "nobody's friends" come to Class Day and increase the too large crowd. Giving seniors a sufficient pretext for refusing such request for tickets was another reason for making the phrase so sweeping...
...have been obliged to complain many times in our columns of the disgraceful way in which the Cambridge "muckers" are allowed to take possession of the college yard and athletic grounds. As the spring has advanced the nuisance has been getting more and more intolerable, and must be stopped in some way. The new sod in the yard is trampled all over every day by these irrepressible youngsters; they gather in swarms whenever the Glee Club sings, and on Wednesday they used Holmes Field as a play-ground while the cricket match was going on, got in everybody...